Cement-catching receptacle.



l 6.5 PALMER CEMENT CATCHING HECEPTACLE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28. 1917.

GEORGE E. PALMER, 0F BROOKLYN, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF '10 MARGARET C. BUNK, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

'CEMENT-CATCHING RECEPTACLE.

iaeooooot Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 8, 1919.

Application filed November 28, 1917. Serial No. 204,356.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. PALMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Anne Arundel and State of Maryland, have invented cer" tain new and useful Improvements in GementCatching Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved cement-catching receptacle, especially designed for use by masons and builders during the erection of brick walls, to catch and save the cement that may be. dropped.

In erecting brick-walls-the Wallis usually built in stages or steps, each as high'as the brick-layer can reach from the scaffold on 'which he stands.

. channel or groove around each brick at its front face and lea-vin each appear in relief, cameo fashion. In this character of work when the wet cement is gouged or scraped from between the bricks a considerable quantity falls in the dirt and becomes worthless; it is therefore the object of the present invention to provide an improved construction of receptacle for catching the removed cement, in order that it may be saved and utilized in the laying of other brick.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which,----

Figure 1, shows a portion of a brick wall; the scaffold and my improved cement-catching receptacle in position to catch the cement as it is removed from the outer edges of the brick. R

Fig. 2, illustrates in perspectivethe cement-catching receptacle.

Fig. 3, is a vertical cross-sectional detail of same.

Referring to the drawing, and particularly Figs. 2 and 3 thereof, the numeral 5, designates the receptacle having a low front wall 6; a bottom 7, which extends substantially at a right angle to the front wall and an inclined rear wall 8, which is higher than the front wall and extends upwardly and rearwardly from the bottom 7. The receptacle also has end walls 9, at opposite ends thereof.

Along the upper edge the front wall 6, is provided on its outer side with an angle bar 10, which is riveted in place, and the front wall has an outwardly-extending flange 11,

which 'eirtends over and around the said angle bar, whereby to materiallyreinforce thefron't wall from end to end.

The two end walls 9, are also provided along the upper outer sides with inclined angle bars 12, and the said walls have outward-extending flanges 13, that extendover and under said inclined angle bars to reinforce the receptacle in a direction from front to ear.

The upper edge of the inclined rear wall 8, has a lateral flange 14: from end tovend,

which also serves a useful purpose in addition to stiflening, as will presently be on plaineda The under side of the receptacle is pro,

vided at spaced intervals, with metal bars' 15, which extend from a point well up the inclined rear wall 8, downwardly and he neath the bottom, and which reject forwardly from the bottom and eyond the front wall 6. The outer forward end of.

each bar 15, has a down-turned pointed foot vide an angle brace bar 17, with one leg seated on top of said forward'end and the other leg extending vertically and riveted to the outer side of the front wall. These angle brace-bars 17 -therefore efl'ectively brace the projecting-l forward ends of the bars 15. 1

An angle-bar 18, extends along the rear side of the rear wall and is riveted against the upper end of each metal bar 15, and this angle bar efi'ectively braces and stifiens the inclined rear wall.

The operation of the receptacle is "illustrated in Fig. 1, wherein the brick wall is designated 19, and the scaflolddenoted by the numeral 20.

By referring to the upper portion of Fig. 1, it will be noted that the two courses 21, of brick are laid in cement 22, which originally is flush with the front face 23, of the wall while the courses of brick beneath those designated as 21, have had the soft cement removed from their front edges thus leaving grooves 24, between the brick in the finished portion of the wall. is the removed cement that the receptacle is designed to catch and save; inasmuch as this operation is per formed While the cement is soft aifd plastic and the cement can be used again within a reasonable time.

In the operation of the device the receptacle is seated with the feet 16, on the scaffold and the flange ll, on the upper edge of the inclined rear wall resting against the brick wall structure or preferably into one of the horizontal grooves 24; the wet cement drops onto the rear wall 8, which being in clined canses the cement to slide tot he bottom 7. V The feet 16, prevent the receptacle from sliding forward and sustain the front portion of the receptacle, while the rear of the receptacle is sustained by leaning against. the wall.

Obviously as the brick Wall is built up the soft cement may be scraped or otherwise. removed from between the front edges of the brick to form the grooves 24, and the re moved "soft cement will drop onto the inclined 'rear wall 8, which will deliver the cement to the bottom of the receptacle.

The receptacle may be four, six or eight feet long, consequently needs bracin and stiffening to hold the weight of the cement to engage a horizontal groove in a brickwall structure.

2. A receptacle having a front wall. a. bottom, two end walls and .an inclined rear Wall with a rearwardly-extending flange along its upper edge and bars extending forward from under the bottom and projecting in front of the front wall said bars having down turned feet at their forward ends only.

In testimony whereof I ailiX my signature,

GEORGE E. IA Lih IERv 'Witnesses:

Cnannns B. MANN, J12, HELEN B. VVUNDER. 

